Re: DMN: How could June Jones leave behind this mess at SMU?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:28 pm
Puckhead48E wrote:floridianstang wrote:EastStang wrote:JJ had some Texas connections as well. But clearly, he did not want to be bothered going to living rooms in Kady, Odessa, Dimebox and the like. He had some good Texas recruiters early on and the spent his time on transfers and hoped that the rest of his crew figured it out. That said, Bennett did not do a great job recruiting Texas either despite his perfect resume to do so. If we are going to recruit Texas and we should, we need someone with credibility at the top in recruiting in Texas. But now we're behind the P5 eightball and who knows what that will do to us. I heard the words during the broadcasts, we have a chance to be one of the better mid-majors. Given that we're the same size as Baylor, TCU, the U, Duke, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, USC, Northwestern and Notre Dame, those words ring very hollow to me.
Don't let what they say get to you. We were a crappy basketball team 2 years ago and look where we are now, staring at a sweet 16 run.
Seriously...someone just dropped off this ID10T form for you to sign.
How many players are on a basketball team? How many on a football team?
How many of those play regularly for each? What is the impact of 2-3 big time players in basketball...football?
What is the size of the average basketball playbook? Football playbook?
It is going to take significant time and capitol to rise above successful mid-major level if done anywhere close to the right way. Look at pretty much every program that recently made the leap to annual top 10 finishes....and you see some type of scandal within 5-10 years of that (usually after the coach leaves...Oregon is the current one that comes to mind). Having said that, we can't get to that level we wish to attain without first getting to top 25, and that can be done in 5-7 years. So let's support but also have a bit of common sense in this endeavor, or else we will have to deal with more issues. I'm sure there is nothing that UT and A&M and the NCAA would like more than to decide in 10 years that they are going to start enforcing rules again by kicking us back to the dark ages if we do this wrong. They would love that.
Yes, I'm pretty sure ECU has more capital than SMU and that is why they are in the top 25. Or is it the easy non conference schedule they play? Wait....